Heroes of ITBP

Stories of martyrs and Gallantry medal recipients of Indo-Tibetan border Police (ITBP) egkfuns’kd Director General Hkkjr&frCcr lhek iqfyl Indo Tibetan Border Police

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Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has come a long way in the 55 years since its establishment in the wake of the Indo-China war of 1962. A truly glorious past motivatess the close knit 'Himveer' family both individually and as a team. ITBP has surge forth in the service of the Nation as the brave-hearts of the Himalayas. We salute our comrades-in-arms who have made the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty at the altar of motherland for upholding the Nation’s honour and security. Their sacrifice will continue to inspire us. We also hold our brethren who suffered grave injuries in the call of duty, in highest esteem. Chief Patron I am happy to note that a compendium on ‘Heroes of ITBP’ dedicated to martyrs and brave hearts of the Force has Krishna Chaudhary, DG been compiled by PR Cell, Dte Genl. I hope that our present and future generations would be highly motivated after going through the descriptions of heroic actions of the Force personnel in the line of duty. Patron Dipesh Juneja, IG (HQ) Jai Hind ! Compilation and prepared by:- Vivek Kumar Pandey, DC/PRO Inspector/HT D. S. Mehta Inspector/ESC Y. V. Reddy d`".k pkS/kjh Designing- Krishna Chaudhary Constable/GD A. Rama Rao With information from Ops Branch, Dte. Genl. and all field formations Kirti Chakra Kirti Chakra Awardee Year- 2008

Constable Ajay Singh Pathania and Constable Roop Singh were at the Embassy of India, Kabul in Afghanistan. On 7th July, 2008 Ct/GD Roop Singh was manning the barrier of the Main gate of the Embassy while Constable Ajay Singh Pathania was on sentry duty at the Main Gate. At 0830 hours, a Regt. No. 900150404 Land rover vehicle carrying the defence attaché Brig R.D.Mehta and Counsellor Shri V. Venkateshwara CT/GD Rao approached the gate. Ct Ajay Singh Pathania spotted a white Toyota Corolla directly behind the Land rover was suspicious. Ct Ajay Singh Pathania shouted at Ct Roop Singh not to lift the anti bomb hexa Ajay Singh Pathania barrier. (Posthumous) th Ct Roop Singh reacted and did not lift the barrier. Within a second, the Toyota Corolla ranmed into 9 Bn the Land rover resulting in a huge explosion, causing the death of Defence attaché and counsellor. Both Ct Roop Singh and Ajay Singh Pathania were also killed on the spot. Without caring for their lives, they prevented the tailing vehicle from entering the Embassy compound saving lives of the other Embassy staff. Ct Ajay Singh Pathania and Ct Roop Singh displayed extreme courage and valour, dedication and devotion to duty, motivation and determination, averted a major disaster inside the Indian Embassy at Kabul and gave the supreme sacrifice protecting the honour and sovereignty of the Nation. Both were Regt. No. 910140615 awarded Kirti Chakra Posthumously for the year-2008. CT/GD

Roop Singh (Posthumous) 12th Bn Kirti Chakra and its ribbon, the second highest peacetime decoration of India Shaurya Chakra Year- 2008 Shri Ashok Kumar Rana, AC/GD was posted in 19th Bn, ITBP. On specific information that some Shaurya Chakra Awardee foreign Militants are hide in Village Chirwar Distt-Anantnag (J&K) on 2nd November, 1998 Shri Ashok kumar Rana, AC laid cordon around Village Chirwar in early morning along with other parties of 19th Bn, ITBP. While requesting all the villagers to come out of their houses, five foreign Militants of Lasker- Regt No. 750020046 e-Toiba outfit came out from a house and started indiscriminate fire. AC/GD Shri Ashok Kumar Rana, AC after ensuring the safety of the villagers launched a counter attack against Ashok Kumar Rana (Posthumous) the militants, was leading his party from the front and gunned down all five militants and huge quantity of 19th Bn Arms, Ammunitions, Wireless sets, training précis and other intelligence value materials recovered. Shri Rana badly injured in this operation and sacrificed his life for the mother nation.

CT/GD Dev Kumar was a member of ITBP contingent deployed in Afghanistan for providing security to Border Road Organization (BRO) personnel engaged in road construction project Delaram-Zaranj. On 05.06.2008 at around 1715 hrs, an ITBP convoy was returning to the base camp after completion of duties, when suddenly a Corolla Vehicle laden with explosive came from the opposite direction and hit ITBP leading convoy vehicle. In the massive explosion that followed, CT/GD Dev Kumar,thus made supreme sacrifice in the service Regt. No. 880185704 of the Nation, upholding the highest tradition of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force. CT/GD Dev Kumar (Posthumous) th Shaurya Chakra and its ribbon, the third highest peacetime decoration of India 8 Bn Year- 2009 Year-2009 CT/GD Onkar Nath was on security duty in Project Zaranj, Afghanistan. On 5th June 2008, he was Inspector/GD Manoj Kumar Singh was part of the Quick Reaction Team deployed for providing travelling in the front escort ITBP convoy returning from Razai Quarry after the day’s work of extracting stones security to the Boarder Roads Organization (BRO) personnel in Afghanistan. On 3rd January 2008 at for road construction. Before moving on the highway, the convoy stopped to survey and secures the highway. 1645 hours, he received information that bomb kept in a motorcycle has been detonated near the convoy In the meanwhile, an explosive laden Corolla vehicle came with tremendous speed towards the convoy. Shri of BRO returning from the quarry operations in a Taliban infested town. Nath was about to fire the suicide bomber detonated himself and the vehicle exploded close to him. He immediately rushed to the blast site with his team and took stock of the situation and deployed Despite severe injuries including loss of sight in one eye, he rushed the QRT vehicle loaded with explosive Regt. No. 950120025 his team to evacuate safely the convoy from further attacks. He swiftly cleared the road for traffic and Regt. No. 880131602 shells and removed the explosive shells to a safe place and prevented further explosions. Thereafter, he secured Inspector/GD managed to divert the convoy and guided it to safety. CT/GD Onkar Nath the area to thwart a possible follow up attack by the Taliban. Shri Onkar Nath immediately informed the Manoj Kumar Singh TPT Bn After ensuring that the last vehicle of the convoy was safe, he regrouped his team for returning to HQ and helped in evacuating the other injured personnel. Shri Onkar Nath showed exemplary courage and (Posthumous) headquarters when a suicide bomber blew ups himself close to him. He sustained severe injuries and th presence of mind in the face of extreme adverse conditions and saved many lives. 10 Bn sacrificed his life on the line of duty.

NO 897040148 CT/GD Desha Singh, was part of the Quick Reaction Team (QRT) deployed for Year-2015 providing security to the Border Roads Organization (BRO) personnel in Afghanistan. On 3rd January ,2008 at 1645 hours, the Quick Reaction Team received information that a bomb kept in a motorcycle has been detonated before the convoy of BRO returning from the Quarry operations in a Taliban infested On 23rd May, 2014 at around 0325 hrs, a group of armed Fidayeens launched an attack on Consulate General town. The Quick Reaction Team immediately reached the blast site. of India, Herat (Afghanistan) with Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs/UBGLs) followed by incessant heavy burst fire from automatic weapons. Inspector Manjit Singh, who was commander of security arrangements Regt. No. 897040148 Without wasting time and cordination with QRT commander and after ensuring that the last vehicle made by ITBP in Indian Consulate in Herat quickly assessed the threat and ordered the troops to firmly counter CT/GD of the convoy moved away from blast site safely, he joined his team for returning to Headquarters when the Fidayeen attack. Desha Singh a suicide bomber blew up himself close to him. He sustained severe injuries and later succumbed to his Regt. No. 000150413 Manjit Singh escorted the Consulate General and civilian staff to the ‘Strong Room’ and ensured their (Posthumous) injuries. Thus Shri Desha Singh displayed raw courage, determination and sacrificed his life on the line of duty. Insp/GD safety. He swiftly moved from one commando to the other and guided and motivated them. One Fidayeen was Manjeet Singh killed by ITBP commandos inside the premises of the Consulate while three others were compelled to take 16th Bn shelter in nearby build up area and later on neutralized by Afghan Forces. ITBP troop showed their gallant act which resulted in neutralizing Fidayeen attack on Indian Consulate in Herat. Shri Manjeet Singh displayed raw courage, determination in performing his duty. President's Police Medal Year -1968

One Platoon of Indo Tibetan Border Police under the command of NK Sunder Lal was deployed at Mana near Badrinath, Distt- Chamoli (UP) located at an altitude of 10,400 ft above sea level. Police staff was For Gallantry staying in three local schools. On January, 29, 1968 evening around 5 O Clock, a strong thunderstorm moved into Mana area and came with a great ice storm resulting ITBP establishment sunk into the snow and all 20 staying staff numbers buried under the snow. However after two and half an hour, NK Sunder Lal succeeded in getting out of the pile of snow while others were still buried under the snow. Facing a difficult situation, trauma and wounds, yet Sunder Lal decided to rescue an alive man from snow and was able to save him. After crossing chest deep snow he went towards the Regt. No. 2577 post and called for assistance. Receiving no reply, he arrived at the check post after crawling about 10 yards and NK informed them about the incident. Sunder Lal nd As a result, three personnel were saved. Despite being completely exhausted, he remained involved in rescue 2 Bn operation until being admitted to the Hospital. NK Sunder Lal displayed conspicuous courage and devotion to duty causing saved theee precious lives. Year- 1996 Year- 2002 Ct Suresh Kumar and Ct Karamat Ullah were the part of the ITBP team deployed in On receipt of specific information about the presence of militants in a house at village village Larnu (J&K) on 18.12.1994 when it received information about a dreaded terrorist Bunagund, the ITBP Battalion organized a search operation for nabbing the militants. Shri hiding in village Halen. When party cordoned the house and challenged the terrorist to SPS Guleria and HC/GD Lalit Singh were the part of that search operataion. As soon as surrender, the terrorist started firing on the ITBP party with his automatic weapon. The Shri Guleria alongwith his party entered the room of the said house, the hiding militants ITBP party returned the fire but could not do any harm to the terrorist as he was entrenched opened heavy volume of fire. Shri Guleria retaliated the fire and killed one dreaded militant in the house. Thereupon, the team commander decided to enter the house to arrest the belonging to the Jaise-E- Mohammad group. At this moment, the other militant who was terrorist. CTs Suresh Kumar and Karamat Ullah voluntarily entered the house. Constable occupying the another corner of the room opened fire on Shri Guleria and he received fatal Suresh Kumar opened the lid type door on the upper floor while constable Karamat Ullah Regt. No. 780060941 Regt No. 670071543 injuries. HC Lalit Singh, showing exemplary courage crawled under heavy militants fire and Regt. No. 880176554 Regt. No. 870123385 took position to give covering fire. On the door being opened, the terrorist who was hiding late AC/GD HC/GD took position from where he gunned down the other militant of Harkat-ul Mujahideen group. CT/GD CT/GD between firewood logs, opened fire at him. The bullets hit on the head of Shri kumar and he S. P. Guleria Lalit Singh In the process, he was hit by the bullet burst of militant and succumbed to the injuries. Huge Suresh Kumar (Posthumous) Karamat Ullah (Posthumous) (Posthumous) quantity of Arms and ammunition were recovered from the site of encounter. Both personnel died on the spot whereas Constable karamat Ullah tried to tackle the militant by pouncing th SPT Bn SPT Bn upon the terrorist and over powered him. In this encounter Shri Suresh Kumar, Constable 10th Bn 10 Bn sacrified their lives in the line of duty. th (Attached With 19 Bn) and karamat Ullah, Constable, displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion to duty of a high order. Year- 2002 Year- 1999 CT/GD Abdul Rashid Bhatt was part of a special patrol between the general area of Kogund and Chuntipura in District Anantnag for night vigil on 2.02.2000. The patrol party observed two silhouettes making stealthy A specific information was received by Shri Kabul Singh, Commandant about the presence of some hard movement towards the adjoining forest area. On being challenged by the patrol party, one of the suspect ran into core foreign militants in a house of village Chirwar. Accordingly a team led by Shri Rana, AC reached the spot an adjoining house and the other surrendered. There was intermittent firing from the house. The militant inside on Noverber 2, 1998 but could not succeed to enter the house therefore Shri Kabul Singh himself reached the took refuge in a room of the 1st floor. spot and entered the house with men,was met by a volley of bullets from sophisticated weapons fired at both Shri Rana and his coy and an encounter ensued. Shri Rana saw movement of militants and immediately returned the As CT Abdul Rasheed Bhatt tried to enter the room the militant opened fire on him and he died on the fire killing two dreaded militants but the militants opened a volley of fire on Shri Rana who died instantly on the spot. Insp. Umang Khatri who was with Ct Bhatt, immediately retuned the fire. The terrorist jumped out of a spot. Meanwhile Shri kabul Singh moved near to the militants hide out and fired at a militant identified later an Regt. No. 970240025 window to escape but Insp. Khatri fired on the window and killed the suspect. One AK-47, 05AK-47 Magazines, Regt. No. 730030011 IED expert, and Commander of Lasker-e-Toiba. In this operation, three hard core militants of Lasker-e-Toiba CT 01 Launcher, 151 AK-47 amn, 04 Hand Grenade, 06 Launching Grenade and 04 Chinese Pistol rounds were Comdt were killed and a large quantity of arms, précis and other intelligence valued material were recovered. Abdul Rashid Bhatt recovered from the site. K.S. Bajwa (Posthumous) In this encounter Shri K.S. Bajwa, Commandant displayed conspicuous, gallantry, courage and devotion to th In this encounter (Late) Shri Abdul Rasheed Bhatt, Constable & Shri Umang Khatri Inspector displayed 19th Bn 24 Bn duty of a high order. conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion to duty of a high order. Year-2003 Year- 2004 On 28th June, 2003, on the basis of specific intelligence input, a joint operation alongwith RR troops was After received an input at Kamar Post that militants would travel in a civil bus between Kamar and Kapran planned in General area Bhole under the leadership of Shri Harinder Pal Singh, DC. As per plan, a team led by on 13.12.2002, an ops party moved in two bullet proof vehicles towards Kapran to apprehend the militants HC Jitender reached in Jungle line area, South–East of Bhole Village who detected the movement of terrorist travelling in the civil bus. When ITBP party stopped the bus at Kapran, three militants jumped out of the bus and their entering into the Gwari. He analyzed the situation and cautioning his party Cdr and fellow stops to keep and opened indiscriminate fire on the vehicles/troops. Insp/GD Ashok Kumar Yadav who was part of ops party, a watch on the Gwari where terrorists had taken shelter. In the gun battle between RR troops and terrorists, one sitting in the rear seat of the vehicle asked his comrades to provide him fire cover which was immediately of the terrorist was killed. As the second terrorist tried to escape from the Gwari from Rear Window, HC Jitender given and himself charged the militants from a distance of merely 15-20 yards in a heroic manner spraying Regt. No. 870163707 Kumar, deployed as stop, observed the movement of terrorist and opened fire causing him bullet injury. He Regt. No. 880100092 bullets from his AK-47 Assault Rifle, single handedly in one attempt downed all the three militants. Huge HC/GD chased the running terrorist who took cover behind a big boulder in thick vegetation started firing at HC Jitender Inspector/GD amount of Arms and Ammunition was recovered from the killed militants/site of action. Jitender Kumar Kumar. He alongwith one LMG man crawled forward taking the cover of vegetation charged the terrorist amidst Ashok Kumar Yadav 16th Bn 10th Bn In this encounter Shri Ashok Kumar Yadav, inspector displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion heavy exchange of firing killed the dreaded terrorist of Hibul Mujahidin (HM) Outfit. Huge amount of Arms and to duty of a high order. Ammunition recovered from the slain terrorists.

Year-2005 Year 2004 On 6th March, 2004, based on specific information from a reliable source about hiding of 3-4 terrorists in Village Bhargi, Comdt 16th Bn, ITBP directed one of Ambush Party operating in the On receiving specific information through a reliable source about the presence of some terrorists in dense near vicinity for an operation. Soon after, the party reached the suspected house and cordoned forested area of Gugaxa on 3rd November, 2003, a joint operation with Army and STF was planned under it. Thereafter, the terrorists were asked to surrender which was responded by firing by suspects. the leadership of Shri RS Choudhary, DC. A search and cordon parties commenced operation. As the ITBP HC/GD Bhagwinder Singh & CT/GD Sant Ram were given the task to climb on the roof of column was nearing one of the Gwaris, it came under terrorist fire. CT Kamal Kumar was part of ITBP cordon the house. Both braverly managed to reach the roof of the house from where they enter the and Search Operation Party, crawled forward to get a clear picture of the situation. In the face of volley of fire, top floor than moved to second floor but the terrorist opened heavy fire upon them. Without the brave and heroic constable crawled and reached the Gwari. As Ct/GD Kamal Kumar reached the window taking slightest care of risk of their lives, HC/GD Bhagwinder Singh Negi and CT/GD Sant Ram, of the Gwari, the hiding terrorist suddenly jumped out from the window, pounced upon him and tried to exchanged heavy fire and gunned down one terrorist. In the meantime, other terrorists shifted to snatch the rifle of Constable Kamal Kumar. A scuffle took place for about 15 seconds between them but due to Regt. No. 990060254 ground floor and started firing indiscriminately which was impossible to charge back. The Ops exceptional courage and conspicuous bravery, he succeeded in killing the dreaded terrorist with a single bullet Regt. No. 870133051 Regt. No. 940252446 CT/GD commander then decided to regroup the party and launched a full fledged counter offenses from from close quarters. A considerable quantity of Arms and Ammunition recovered from slain terrorist. HC/GD CT/GD Kamal Kumar outside the house premises which resulted in killing of three more dreaded terrorists of HM outfit th Bhagvinder Singh Negi Sant Ram 16 Bn In this encounter, Shri Kamal Kumar, Constable displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion to 16th Bn 16th Bn without any loss of life of own troops. A huge quantity of Arms and Ammunition recovered from duty of the high order. the terrorists. In this encounter Shri Bhagwinder Singh Negi, HC/GD and Sant Ram, CT/GD displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion to duty of a high order. Year-2009 Year-2016 CT/GD Anil Kumar T of ITBP was deployed in Jarang project in Sept-2007 and he was performing security duties On 3rd January, 2016, at around 2028 hours a group of armed Fidayeens with 23 BRTF. On 12.04.2008 at 0754 hrs approximately 54 Km towards from Gurguri to Delaram near Maniuppam attacked the CGI, Mazar E Sharif with Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) Dates (Tower) when burm filling/ Road marking team was going towards its work place, all of sudden a sucidal followed by heavy brust fire from automatic weapons. man exploded himself with bomb near the team. In this explosion two BRO employees were killed and many BRO/ ITBP jawans injured. CT/GD Anil Kumar T was one among the injured. Depite injury, he ensured that BRO & ITBP The group of Fidayeens tried to breach the boundary wall and main gate by resorting to heavy Gun fire and Grenade lobbing, but HC/GD Virender Singh personnel to get down from damaged vehicle and they should be ready to bring them to MI Room. Kumar despite Insp/GD Regt. No. 880183185 and CT/GD Sunil Bisht immediately returned fire with his automatic weapons injuries before losing consciousness, he then took the front to protect the area so as to prevent possible attacks of the Subhash Chandra CT/GD Taliban. and alerted post commander and other troops. Anil Kumar T nd Insp/GD Subhash Chandra with total total disregard to his own safety and 22 Bn braving intense hostile gun and rocket fire; resulted in elimination and injury to terrorists and compelled other Fidayeens to run for shelter in adjacent Year-2015 buildings. By that time, Afghan Forces arrived and engaged attacking terrorist by surrounding the building. Later on, in a joint Combing operation by Afghan On 23.05.2014, at around 0325 hours a group of armed Fidayeens attacked Quick Reaction Forces and support fire by ITBP, remaining Fidayeens were also the CGI, Herat with Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) followed by heavy brust eliminated. fire from automatic weapons. HC/GD CT/GD The quick decision making, precise sharp shooting skills and the astute The duty sentries CT/GD Rakesh Kumar, CT/GD Praveen Kumar, HC/GD Virender Singh Sunil Bisht courage and combat resoluteness in highly risky anti terror combat operation Ved Pal Malik and CT/GD Jadeja Rajender singh immediately returned fire with Regt No. 030060438 Regt No. 020160859 demonstrated by the above personnel speaks about the highest level of bravery their automatic weapons and alerted post commander and other troops. These CT/GD CT/GD and true professionalism of ITBP personnel. brave and conspicuous four personnel diffused the attack by eliminating the 3 Praveen Kumar Rakesh Kumar fidayeen. 13th Bn 22nd Bn Showing extraordinary presence of mind and conspicuous bravery in the face of enemy attack, these personnel also escorted the civilian staff residing in the building to a safe room and ensured their safety throughout the operation. Fidayeens plan was to take hostage of Consulate General and the staff. As tremendous presence of mind, swift combat action and the grit shown by these Regt No. 940252856 Regt No. 020180361 personnel not only ensured elimination of 03 Fidayeens but averted a major HC/GD CT/GD mishap and embarrassment to the Nation. Ved Pal Malik Jadeja Rajender Singh 34th Bn ITBP Academy Year -1972 Police Medal for Gallantry On 3rd December,1971, when a coy of ITBP under command of Sh MS Khati, CC reached Bde HQ Poonch, shelling by enemy was going on. Coy personnel were deployed different posts section & platoon wise. On 12th Dec, the section of L/Nk Chandra Mani was ordered to move at Shikaro Post which was strategically important and continued under enemy fire. On 15th Dec when L/NK Chandra Mani was on duty during night, nothing was visible. Suddenly, he Regt. No. 620080113 Regt. No. 620070055 Regt. No. 670080043 had a feeling of slipped stone. Seeing it he became alert and in a few Company Commander Jemadar Karnail Singh NK second he felt some dim figures moving towards him who were the Trilok Singh 6th Bn Chandra Mani enemies. L/NK Chandra Mani opened fire and killed 3 enemies and 6th Bn 7th Bn put an end to the deceptive movement of the enemy and lowered their morale. He was awarded Police Medal for Gallantry exhibited during war. Shri Trilok Singh, CC and Jemadar Karnail Singh also awarded Police Medal for Gallantry for exemplary courage in 1971 war. On 19th January, 1975, a severe intensity earthquake shook a number of places in the snow bound Kinnaur and Spiti district of HP. Shri Shashi Dharan Pillai, HC was working as a wireless operator at Sumdo (HP) buried alongwith WT sets and accessories under the debris. There was no possibility of any communication with the out side world. In utter disregard of his personal safety, Shri Pillai went out in the open and able to flash first news of the earthquake at 18.30 hours by retrieved WT set with accessories and battery under sub zero temp continued working in the open throughout the night and maintained the communication with the affected areas. Receiving information, a rescue party from BHQ Regt No. 60102022 Regt No. 638030043 reached Sumdo. On their return journey, the Bn Comdt Lt Col PS Grewal slipped while HC/RO Jemadar Khazan Singh negotiating a landslide and as he was about to fall into the river below, Jem. Khazan Singh Shashi Dharan Pillai HADSA showing great presence of mind and at imminent risk to his own life jumped down on a loose Telecom Bn boulder, and caught hold of the Commandant’s hand, having anchored himself precariously to a rock. Ultimately the other members of the rescue party succeeded in pulling Lt.Col Grewal and Jem. Khazan Singh back to safety. Year -1976 Year -1988

HC Kul Prasad of the 2nd Bn showed outstanding courage as also leadership of an exceptional Late Constable/GD Sarup Singh was on duty at VI Bn Sarahan. A cloud burst order, in a critical situation, bringing into sharp focus, on the ground, the inescapable multiple role Regt. No. 3764 (Old) occurred during the Month of August, 1987. Late Constable /GD was exposed to of the Force and the importance of its individual specialization for the terrain in which it functions. flash flood to save men and material and laid down his life in the line of duty. Havildar Kul Prasad His achievement provided the requisite impetus for the formal declaration of the role of the force nd 2 Bn, ITBP which had been eluding definition for more than a decade. (ITBP Bulletin-1976-Page-34). Recognizing duty and devotion during the flash flood. he was awarded Police Medal for Gallantry Vide President’s Secretariat Notification No-56-pres/88, dated Regt. No. 680060089 Regt. No. 780060054 15.07-1988 (Published in Part I Section of 1 of the Gazette of India dated 30.07.88. Year -1979 CT/D On 18th May, 1978 during the course of an expedition to Hardeol, Shri SP Mulasi, CC,the leader HC Sarup Singh of the expedition, fell into a closed crevasse at camp-II, which was located at 17,500 feet. Shri Bhagcharan Das th (Posthumous) Regt. No. 657010435 Bhoop Singh, Jemadar organized a rescue operation immediately and tied a rope around his waist 7 Bn 6th Bn Jem Bhoop Singh and gave its end to the CC to be held by him tightly. He was in an extremely dangerous position but HADSA did not hesitate to take the risk. He then asked the other members of the party to drop aluminium ladder and managed to sink it into the snow upto half its length single handed with this anchorage and pulled out the Asstt Comdt from the deep creavasse so. Shri Bhoop Singh, Jemadar saved the Year -1989 life of expedition leader by taking risk in disregard of his personal safety and showed exemplary On the 7th January, 1989 at about 4.30 AM, an Army/SPF patrol party sleeping in their temporary accommodation/bunkers at Bugdiyar was courage. buried under snow avalanche. They were completely overpowered by shock and were not able to come out of the deep snow. On hearing the sound Year -1984 of avalanche, ITBP party alongwith L/NK Harender Singh, Constable Om Prakash and other members reached the accident site struggled for hours Sh. HS Goraya and A Ramesh Paul, ACC were the part of a group of 300 personnel deputed together with relentless efforts and search, able to extricate 6 men of the Army/SPF from the snow but suddenly another avalanche of the same to handle any violent situation occurred during ASIAD-1982 event held at Delhi in the Month of intensity came and it became impossible to rescue the remaining buried members. Nov-Dec-1982. Both were trained Anti Terrorist Commando after elementary training in ITBP Finding the situation beyond their control, 5 days continuous efforts and struggle and were deployed during IX Asian Games. Sh. Goraya and Paul exhibited great courage and L/NK Harender Singh and Constable Om Prakash voluntarily reached Lilam camp, devotion during Football match played between Korea and Kuwait when they saved the Thai on the 14th January 1989 to inform about calamity. Immediately Army/SPF men referee who was beaten up by the unruly Korean mob, players and their supporters. Both officers rushed to the site of accident and saved the men and the remaining injured and other got wide acclamation in the press also. In fact the life of the Thai referee could be saved only due personnel of Army/SPF and Indo Tibetan border Police personnel who were waiting to the exemplary courage, outstanding devotion to duty in compete disregard to their own safety for the help on 7th January, 1989. In this rescue operation, Shri Harendar Singh, Lance Regt. No. 111102611 A Ramesh Paul and presence of mind displayed by Shri HS Goraya and Shri A. Ramesh Paul ACC of the ITBP, 830090119 860100132 Lnk CT Naik and Shri Om Prakash, Constable displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and AC/GD AC/GD Anti Terrorist Group. Had the two officers not acted in the manner described would have caused devotion to duty of a high order. H.S. Goraya international repercussions and embarrassment to the counrty. For their exemplary performance Harender Singh Om Prakash th th 14th Bn Shri HS Goraya and Shri A Ramesh Paul, Astt. Coy Commander conferred Police Medal for 10 Bn 10 Bn Gallantry for the year 1984. Year -1990 Year-1988 On 22.05.89, a request from Director Defence Institute of Work Study, Mussoorie, Uttrakhand was received for The ITBP Transit camp in the Malari axis in the Garhawal Hills Just 200 mtr help to extinguish the fire broken out in the vicinity of DIWS. On receipt of information, Under the able leadership short of Bhapkund, at 1800 hrs on 6th Feb, 1992, Shri VPS Tyagi made the ill fated of SI/GD Desh Raj with 28 personnel of ITBP Academy along with required fire fighting equipment immediately decision to break up his pay party into units for tactical move in order to trudge rushed to the site and carried out the analysis of the situation. the heavily snowed treacherous route infested with a series of avalanche points. He placed himself in the middle of them all to supervise the movement of troops better. In the course of fire fighting, it so happened that SI/GD Desh Raj slipped and fell down in the middle of the On the way, all of sudden an avalanche loomed before their eyes hitting them straight, fire. He had sustained burn injuries and immediately evacuated to the Unit Hospital further referred to the MH hard and flat. Regt. No. 650050122 Dehradun from where he was referred to Command Hospital, Lucknow on 10.06.89. Late SI/GD Satish was trapped in the main trust. Those following him panicked to the shelter While in the train, on the way to Lucknow, SI/GD Desh Raj died in the afternoon on 10.6.89 near Haridwar 111104507 880184324 Desh Raj of a huge boulder rearing in the midst of the glacier like the last straw to clutch. Railway station due burn injuries. For his exemplary courage, leadership quality and supreme sacrifice, he was Coy Commander Constable (Posthumous) Satish cries for help pulled Tyagi out of the safety of the boulder Shri VPS manged to awarded Police Medal for Gallantry. V. P. S. Tayagi Sukhdev Dhobbal HADSA th catch hold of Satish's hands. A second wave of devastating avalanche came on. The 18 Bn wide eyed party sheltered behind the boulder,saw Sukhdev rushing towards Tyagi in an act of help and rescue. But there was to be no rescue. All two lay buried under a dazzling , cold, cruel white sheet of lifelessness snow ie Duty unto death. Sh VPS Tyagi, Coy Commander and Constable Sukhdev Dhobbal have shown what it Year -1992 means to be a true soldier, a true human. They laid down their blessed lives for their comrades. On 7th June, 1991 evening, a sudden flood occured in ‘BARAGUDAGAD' and all the barricades made to protect the SPF camp swept away. The river changed its course towards ITBP camp side. Shri Pradhan, SI/RO on seeing danger to his men and Govt stores, jumped into the shirking waters and started shifting stores and Year-1995 men to safer places but almost 200 barrels swept away in the river. On 11-3-1994, an ITBP convoy consisting of a bus, 7 Ton and 5 Ton vehicles one each left from jammu for Srinagar. The ITBP bus carrying about 50 passengers was driven by Constable/Driver Garib Singh. When the Shri Pradhan alongwith the Jawans jumped into the furious river and succeeded in retrieving about 100 Bus was negotiating a curve near Upper Munda, the militants suddenly opened fire with AK-47 Rifles from right barrels. On the evening of 16.6.91 the river again increased dangerously and become more furious than the and Uphill side of the road causing bullet injuries to five passengers. While the armed escorts returned the fire earlier, flood and started flowing along the jawans mess and Solar Hut. on the militants, driver Garib Singh, kept the bus close to the uphill side and increased the speed of the bus in the Despite chilling fast current/dark night, the SI alongwith four other entered into the river and broke the hilly terrain avoided the direct attack of the Militants and saved the lives of all the passangers of the bus except SI/RO barricades and diverted the flow of river water to another side. 907020487 one who was injured and died later on. S. D. Pradhan In this way they saved the solar hut and the entire camp as well. In this action, Shri SD Pradhan, Sub- CT/DVR In this encounter Shri Garib Singh, Constable, displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotions to 4TH BN Inspector displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion to duty of a high order. Garib Singh duty of a high order. 24th Bn Year -1988 Year -1998 On 22-05-1994, Shri Bhagat Ram left on leave to his village from Kullu. He boarded fully packed Kullu- Hardcore militants of Hizbul Mujaheedeen group were operating in Sarmi Bahik Mandi-Kotli bus which rolled down the steep slope near village Kotli. In the process, most of the passengers under P.S. Kokernag. An operation was planned to nab the militants. Information were injured very seriously. Shri Bhagat Ram also broke his right arm. Most of the passengers including Shri received that about five militants of Laskar-E-Toiba group of HUA (Harkat-UL- Bhagat Ram managed to pull themselves out of the ill fated bus by breaking the windows and the door. Shri Ansar) were staying in village Dandipura. The police party cordoned this disclosed Bhagat Ram, inspite of injury, rushed and got inside the bus and pulled out two trapped passengers. Hearing the location but the militants started firing on the police party and sneaked inthe cries of a child again, he further moved towards the trapped child but bus caught fire due to spillage of oil and Regt. No. 730040141 nearby thick forest. The police party chased the fleeing militants. The militants both Shri Bhagat Ram and the child were engulfed in the fire and died on the spot. Thus, shri Bhagat Ram made Late HC/RO found themselves cordoned by the police party started indiscriminate firing which supreme sacrifice of his life while saving the life of a trapped child. Bhagat Ram was retaliated by the police party in self defence. During this encounter, the militants (Posthumous), 23rd Bn President’s Secretariat Notification No. 29-Pres/96 of 20th May, 1996. Regt. No. 940190192 Regt. No. 87014614 launched grenades and heavy firing from automatic weapons. Unfortunately, a Late SI/GD Late CT/GD grenade splinters hit the forehead of Shri Sajwan and Kishan Ram. As a result of Year -1988 Promod Sajwan Kishan Ram this Shri kishan Ram died on the spot and Shri Sajwan died enroute while being (Posthumous) (Posthumous) evacuated to the unit hospital. SI/GD Promod Sajwan and Ct/GD Kishan Ram On 22.01.1995, Shri Mangal Singh, 2IC of 2nd Bn, ITBP received information about 19th Bn 19th Bn showed exemplary courage and devotion towards duty and laid down their lives in the presence of a hard-core militant alongwith his body guard in a Village in District the line of duty. Anantnag. An operation was planned by ITBP to nab the militants. On 23.01.1995, in the early hours, Shri Mangal Singh alongwith others including Naik Tara Singh and constable Kulwant Singh encircled the particular house. The militant Sh. Magal Singh Regt. No. 907020487 started indiscriminate firing with automatic weapons. On 19-07-1997, on receipt of information about the movement of militants in Village Kogund, Distt. Anantnag, a cordon and search operation was conducted by an ITBP party consisting 19 2I/C CT/DVR Noticing that the firing from the militants had stopped, Shri mangal Singh alongwith nd police personnel including Shri Sukhchain Singh, Inspector. Spotting movement of two persons 2 Bn Garib Singh Naik Tara Singh and constable Kulwant Singh broke open the door hit them on the head th under suspicious circumstances were challenged, the militants opened fire under the cover of 24 Bn and on their hands, with the help of shri Tara Singh and Kulwant Singh, over-powered bushes. and captured them as militants weapon got trouble in functioning. Shri Singh alongwith a constable moved toward the militants and was successful in killing one One AK-47 and one hand-grenade and some ammunition were recovered from their of the militants while the other militant was suspected to be injured, had taken cover in the broken possession. Regt. No. 640010546 ground. Shri Singh cordoned off the area through-out the night and started search operation on Inspector 20-07-1997 at first light after sealing the exit routes. Regt. No. Sukhchain Singh During the search early next morning, Shri Singh spotted another militant shot him dead. Arms Nk 24th Bn and amm was recovered from the place of encounter. Tara Singh 24th Bn Year -1999 Year-1999

On receipt of specific information about the presence of militants in the house of village On 22-04-1998, a reliable information was received that the dreaded and most wanted Wangam(J&K) on 4-5-97, the police party cordoned the area. militant Habibulla, a Pak national belonging to the H.M. outift was taking refuge alongwith When Shri Raj Kumar and others including Const.Shamsher Singh and Mahinder Pal his accomplices in a house in Verinag, Anantnag. 24th Bn ITBP planned and launched started searching the house, they received a volley of fire from the militants which was cordon and search operation led by HC Vijaypal Singh. The militants opened heavy fire retaliated by Shri Raj Kumar and party. Inspector Raj Kumar planned to enter the house to overawe them and check their advance. But, Shri Singh silently kept moving tactically ahead, and finally succeeded in securing the house adjacent to the militants, gaining in Inspector/GD Regt No. 940253149 with the party to nab the terrorists. HC/GD dominant position. Shri Singh mounted the befitting retaliatory attack on them and killed Raj Kumar CT/GD On the verge of a break through, Inspector Raj Kumar was hit by spray of bullets and Vijay Pal Singh Habibulla. Arms./Amn recovered included FM trans-receiver FT-23-1, Transistor-9 Band (Posthumous) Shamsher Singh succumbed to grave injuries while other members also injured. 24th Bn Sony-1, Afganis-1000 and Indian currency Rs. 185/-. 19th Bn 19th Bn On 5th May 1997, the militants set the house on fire in which they were hiding. On repeated warning to the militants and the occupants of the house was given to come out from the house. 3 girls and their mother alongwith a militant came near the main door. Shri On receipt of intelligence about the presence of militants in cheerwar, Magrah Bahik Joshi who was standing by the side of a wall grappled with the militant. When the militant and Garol areas, organized an operation by deploying the separate parties of 19th, 23rd and got himself free, he was chased and killed by other constables. In this encounter 3 militants 24th Bn to neutralize their hideouts on 03-08-1998. When the above parties were combing, were killed and considerable quantity of Arms and Amm. were recovered. searching Cheerwar, Carol Magray Baihk, Yichhu, Buna Ahlan area, a group of militants, Constable/Gd hiding in the area moved ahead in a bid to escape to Kapran Valley. Mohinder Singh When the group of militants was on the move to cross over to Kapran in a bid to escape 19th Bn CT/GD the dragnet, the parties laid a close cordon and suddenly received heavy firing. Jai Kishan Jangu 24th Bn In the meantime, Shri Jai Kishan, Constable, taking great personal risk moved to the militant’s position and fired on them, which resulted in the killing of one dreaded militant. As the militant group was moving back to cross over to Pashbagh area, surrounded by 23rd Bn. Party and Shri Parminder Singh. Constable, 23rd Bn. moved towards the militants and gunned down one militant. On getting directions from comdt, 19th Bn party to move tactically from right central approach to neutralize the militants from where indiscriminate heavy fire was coming, Shri Constable/GD Regt. No. 867010632 Regt. No 900220563 CT/GDR CT/GD Parminder Ajit Singh. Constable moved towards the hideout of militants and hurled grenades on them. Girdhar Joshi HC/GD CT/GD rd Ajit Singh Singh, 23 Bn As a result one militant was killed and one injured militant surrendered. During the action 19th Bn Kuldeep Singh Basant Singh th 19 Bn huge quantity of Arms and Amm. were recovered. 19th Bn 19th Bn Year -1999 Year-1999 A specific information was received about the presence of On getting information about the presence of 3 terrorists in the house in Vill-Bunagund (J&K), the Comdt some hard core foreign militants in Village Chirwar. Accordingly, 24th Bn., planned a cordon & search operation with 4 small parties. LNK Parimal Singh of 11th SPT Coy was a combing operation was organised. On 2nd Nov.1998, while the also a member of one of the party. At about 2230 hrs on 13-02-1999, when the cordon parties were closing in at troops were closing, suspicious movement was observed in a house the house of Gulam Rasool, volley of fire came from the western portion of the house where Shri Parimal Singh by Shri Ashok Kumar Rana, AC leading his Coy in this operation, was in position followed by a grenades thrown by the terrorist. informed the commandant. At the same time, shri Abhi Chand, AC The militant lobbed more grenades to scare away the troops in the cordon to get away from the encirclement Regt. No. 650010022 was ordered to seal the other routes and lay ambush. In the mean Regt. No. 910140268 but could not succeed. On the same night, the militants started indiscriminate firing and lobbed grenades to pin AC/GD time, the militants fired at the party. The op party retaliated it. In the Constable Regt. No. 870151851 down troops and attempted their escape. Abhi Chand Vijay Kumar exchange of fire, Shri Kabul Singh, Commandant and Shri Rana Lance Naik /GD killed three militants of Lasker-E-Toiba. A subsequent Volley of Parimal Singh, Shri Singh observed some suspicious movement in the dark and crawled towards the escape route and engaged firing from militants seriously injured Shri Rana Killing him on 24th Bn militants in close quarter battle and killed one militant and other managed to escape taking the advantage of the spot. Remaining militants, taking advantage of dull visibility darkness. The dead body of another militant was also found lying inside the house during search. Arms and got away from the area and fired at the cordon party heavily. Shri Amm. were recovered during search . Kabul Singh ordered Shri Abhi Chand, AC and his men to chase and trap the terrorists. Shri Chand along with Shri Vijay Kumar Regt. No. 870162844 Regt. No. 880131148 Constable and Sushil Kumar, Panna Lal and Bijender Singh, Constables Constable/GD Constable/GD Bijender Singh chased the Militants and shot dead 2 millitants during the exchange Sushil Kumar Panna Lal 19th Bn of fire. Huge quantity of Arms and Amm were recovered from the militants.

On 25.11.1998 at about 1500 hrs, militants ambushed one of ITBP vehicle carrying a On 5th January, 1998, at around 0930 hrs., on a reliable input about the movement of Anti-National Elements mobile party from Vailoo to Kokernage. Thereupon, the Comdr of the vehicle ordered the in village Gaoran, Shri Ashok Kumar Rana, AC deployed 3 parties to seal the escape routes. The militants came driver to speed up the vehicle to get away from the ambush area and reach to safer place in contact with the party led by Shri Rana and an encounter took place. for launching a counter ambush. During the enemy ambush, militant fired a grenade which entered ITBP vehicle. Shri Subhash Chand sitting in the vehicle, on seeing the grenade In the encounter, one dreaded militant was killed on the spot and other escaped towards a nearby house from caught it and threw it out of the vehicle. The grenade exploded in the air causing splinter where they continued firing upon ITBP troops. During exchange of fire, militants put the house on fire and escaped. Arms and amm.were recovered. Shri sacrified his life in the line of duty showing exemplary courage Head Constable injuries to Shri Chand. This action of Shri Chand saved the entire ITBP party in the vehicle. Shri Ashok Kumar Rana & devotion to duty. Subhash Chand AC (Posthumous) 7th Bn 19th Bn Year-2002 Year-2002 Constable/GD Suresh Kumar of 6th Bn alongwith his other colleagues was deployed On 18-09-1999 Shri D. Babu, Constable was deployed for duties at polling booth ‘Ajas’ in the ‘Sonawary’ on guard duty at RR Sector HQr khanabal Trijunction. On 12th Jan, 2000 at 1800 hrs Ct/ segment of Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency. The Polling Booth was in the Girls High School surrounded GD Suresh Kumar spotted a terrorist suspected to be suicidal attacker moving among the with double story houses towards South & East and was covered with a number of dense trees on all the sides. Public. Ct Suresh Kumar who was holding his LMG opened fire on the suspect and thereby At 0810 hrs about 10-15 militants opened heavy fire on the ITBP detachment from the houses and a Masjid. alerted his other colleagues. The terrorist opened fire but missed his target. Ct. Suresh In this firing one Constable of ITBP died with multiple injuries in the chest. kumar fired back and killed the terrorist without causing any injury or casualty to the public On seeing the militants, Shri Babu opened his LMG and retaliated the fire. One of the militants disguised Regt. No. 930060019 moving on the busy road. Thus he saved the lives of public as well as of his colleagues. in RR Uniform jumped inside the boundary wall and started firing. The militant started rushing towards the CT/GD After the encounter one AK-47 Rifle with Launcher 7 Magazines, 199 Live rounds, 1 Regt. No. 880160362 Polling Station. Shri Babu identified them and ingaged them. One bullet hit Shri Babu in his left leg, but Shri Suresh Kumar Grenade Chinese, 1 HE Grenade, 4 Rockets, 1 Knife and 3 fired cases were recovered from th Constable. D. Babu Babu kept firing on the militant, hitting him on the chest and mortally wounding him. Militant threw a grenade 6 Bn the action point. Shri Suresh Kumar, Constable displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage th 9 Bn and died on the spot. Shri Babu not only killed an unidentified Afgan militant but also saved lives of at least and devotion to the duty. 60-70 civilians and polling staff who had taken shelter within the booth. Year-2003 On 21-02-2002, Shri Kundan Prasad, AC, at Manigam post received an information about the movement of terrorists belonging to Hizbul-Mujahideen in village Tsuntwaliwar in Distt. Srinagar. A Cordon and search party led by him reached Tsuntwaliwar village on 22-02-2002 but terrorists had succeeded in slipping through the cordon.Situation was reviewed and a small team comprising On 02.02.2000 a special patrol was sent at night in the gereral area of Kogund and Chuntipura in District of 11 personnel under the charge of Shri Kundan Prasad, stayed back in one Anantnag J&K for night vigil. The Patrol party observed two silhouettes making stealthy movement towards of the deserted house at the outskirt, in the north of village so as to give an the adjoining forest area. On being challenged by the patrol party, one of the suspect ran into an adjoining Regt. No. 111106706 impression that entire party had returned with disappointment. After 13 hours of AC Kundan Prasad wait around 1700 hrs, two suspicious persons in Firan approaching towards the house & the other one surrendered. House was immediately cordoned. th 8 Bn village. Immediately 11 member team came in action. The militants were able Inspector Umang Khatri alongwith Ct Abdul Rasheed Bhatt were deputed to approach the house as the to smell the movement of Forces and opened fire on the nearest group. Before first party. There was intermittent firing from the house. Inspector Khatri and Ct Bhatt taking advantage of the terrorists could escape Shri Kundan Prasad, AC and HC Surjeet Singh opened darkness, managed to reach the first floor of the house where the suspect was hiding. As Ct Bhatt tried to enter Regt. No. 890010148 Regt. No. 910060194 fire and succeeded in killing one of the militants. The other militant taking the the room the militant opened fire on him and he died on the spot. Regt. No. 877021586 CT/GD Inspector/GD HC/GD advantage of foggy weather managed to escape towards forest land adjacent to Umang Khatri Inspector Khatri who was with Ct Bhatt immediately returned the fire. The terrorist jumped out of a window Netra Singh Surjeet Singh th village and hide under a bush. The terrorist hiding behind the bush observed th 8 Bn 24 Bn to escape but inspector Khatri fired from the same window killed the suspect. Huge cache of Arms and Amm. 8th Bn by Constable Netra Singh who shoot the terrorist. A huge quantity of Arms and were recovered from the site. Amm was recovered after the operation. Year-2003 Year-2003 On 17th June, 2002 at 0400 hours, Shri Hosiyar Singh, AC got information that a terrorist of HUM outfit, On a specific information on 03.09.02 regarding presence of a militant of HM outfit in general area resident of Bisran Village wants to surrender before ITBP. The Officer moved along with his source and Hal Sidar forest, Anantnag (J&K), a cordon and search ops was being conducted. Three parties were formed to adequate strength to a house in Bisran village and asked the terrorist to surrender. One surrendered terrorist encircle the militant from three different directions and after cordoning off the area, search was started. Party revealed that two dreaded terrorists of HUM outfit might be hiding in the hideout. The party reached the spot came under fire from the militant hiding in a groove covered with thick vegetation. The fire was retaliated by cordoned the hideout till the arrival of re-enforcement from THQ. The terrorists well entrenched in the hideout, the troops, the hiding militant was changing his locations and not permitting security force teams to plan their fired few shots of Rocket Launcher and one of the militants ran out of the hideout firing indiscriminately to move. Entering in thick vegetation without neutralizing the militant would have been a suicidal move. CT/ Regt. No. 111106911 escape towards Bisran Nala which was chased and shot by Shri Hosiyar Singh. Meanwhile, the second terrorist GD Khurshid Ahmed sensing the location of the militant moved deep inside vegetation very stealthily while AC/GD continued to fire from the hideout. Shri Hosiyar Singh, alongwith four commandos took a detour and entered his other team members ensured diversionary fire. He made swift and quite moves while trying to make out Hosiyar Singh CT/GD the house from the rear, lobbed two Grenades through the window, which were enough to neutralize the the location of the militant through his fire. Finding himself face to face with the hiding militant behind the 8th Bn Khurshid Ahmed terrorist. Arms and Amm. were recovered from the site of the action. Shri Hoshiyar Singh showed exemplary boulder, Khurshid Ahmed opened burst fire from his AK-47 which hit the militant and he was killed on the 10th Bn courage and heroism leading the troops from the front. spot. Arm and ammunition were recovered from the slain militant.

On 22nd October, 2002, an information regarding presence of terrorists in a house at Hungpur, Distt- Anantnag was received at Kamar Post. Harjeet Singh alongwith 08 Other ranks and one surrendered militant as his buddy cordoned the suspected house. Insp Harjeet Singh alongwith his buddy and a local as guide went inside the house. Having seen the presence of the terrorists Insp/GD Harjeet Singh along with his buddy swiftly withdrew from the house as the militants were at an advantageous position. He alerted troops deployed in near ITBP Post situated at Gawari (J&K) received information on the midnight of 20/21-05-2002 that one vicinity of the house. Terrorists started indiscriminate firing using two children as human shield. Intense firing Afghan origin militant is taking shelter in an isolated house situated near village Ichher in General area continued intermittently for about 30 minutes. Gawari. The suspicious house was cordoned by troops in the darkness. The militant hiding inside was warned. Finding themselves trapped, terrorists set the house on fire and escaped from the site and hide adjacent Around 0450 hours, one militant was spotted jumping out of the window by Constable Rattan Lal who was Regt. No. 760010257 bushes which was noticed by Insp/GD Harjeet Singh. He anticipated the location of terrorist and was about to positioned on the roof top of an adjoining house. Insp/GD fire in the bushes. Taking advantage of darkness and low lying bushy nala area, the militant tried to escape into near by Harjeet Singh Regt. No. 87154566 The hiding terrorist started indiscriminate fire of AK-47, Insp/GD Harjeet Singh facing the volley of bullets, village houses. CT/GD Rattan Lal immediately jumped in the bushy nala after the escaping militant and fired th CT/GD 8 Bn charged the terrorist from a distance of about 20 yards with his AK-47 Rifle, which resulted killing the terrorist Rattan Lal two bursts from his LMG accurately which hit the dangerous Afghan militant and killed him instantaneously, on the spot. Considerable quantity of Arms and Amm recovered from the slain terrorist. 16th Bn thereby also saving his colleague from getting into cross fire. Arms and Amm were recovered from the slain militant. Year-2003 Year-2003 Operation Sambora was conducted in the early morning on 01-05-2002 in Sangripura Mohalla of On 29th August, 2002, CT/GD Chhunnu Lal of 20th Bn, ITBP and other members were performing regular Sambora Village, approximately 1 Km from 11th Bn ITBP Tac HQ, Lethpora (J&K). Reacting to a firing road clearance duty in Quazigund (J&K). The place was busy with civilian movement. Suddenly the party sound, heard by the area domination patrol of 11th Bn, ITBP parties rushed towards Sambora Village from noticed two terrorists running away from the Central Co-operative Bank, Quazigund apparently after looting two different directions. The operation was carried out jointly by ITBP & SOG. While searching a house, the bank at gunpoint. heavy volume of fire came on the party in which one Insp/GD of ITBP got injured. Finding the location of the In the meantime, the escaping terrorists noticed the ITBP patrol and fired on it while fleeing. It was a militants, the suspicious house was immediately cordoned, CT/GD K. H. Rajendra Singha with LMG took Regt. No. 980110156 difficult situation for the patrol party to open fire in a crowded area. Const/GD Chhunnu Lal took a bold tactical position in front of the house and fired accurately. The militants realized that they are being surrounded, Constable/GD decision of running after the militants not caring of their indiscriminate firing. Being a sharp shooter, CT/GD one of them tried to escape by jumping out of the window. CT/GD K.H. Rajendra Singha anticipating such K. H. Rajendra Singha Chhunnu Lal aimed and shot one of the militants on the spot. 11th Bn move from the militants, immediately without caring for his own safety, picked up his LMG and rushed Regt. No. 880173536 towards the direction, came face to face with the militant, killed the terrorist on the spot. Similarly another Constable/GD CT/GD Chhunnu Lal continued chased the second terrorist and shot him in the leg. However, the injured militant was also killed by SOG personnel during the search of the houses. Huge quantity of Arms and Amm Chhunnu Lal terrorist managed to escape in nearby jungle taking advantage of the darkness. Arms/ Amm and currency recovered from the site of action. 20th Bn recovered after the action.

On 3rd May, 2002, a cordon and search operation was conducted in Gawari and Bharti areas by Shri Ashok Kumar Negi, DC, 16th Bn ITBP with the help of STF parties to mount pressure on militants in the area. The militants shifted to the other side of the ridges. The troops were placed in ambush on the intervening night of 2/3 May and all possible escape routes were fully covered. At about 0845 hrs on 3rd May while sitting in the ambush, On 4th November, 2003, Commandant, 16th Bn ITBP was informed by a reliable source about presence of the troops observed movement of 7-8 civilians on a nearby track who on being challenged had some terrorists in Area Amar Singh Pura (J&K). On this information, an operation was quickly planned and a opened fire on the security force personnel. The fire was immediately retaliated. The militants party was formed including 02 men of STF after which parties swiftly reached the area. tried to escape while one militant succeeded in entering the Nala the other was surrounded in the forest. The militant surrounded in the forest was asked to surrender but he continued to When the sub group led by Sh.Parminder Singh, AC along with HC/GD Roop Singh moved forward fire intermittently. Meanwhile, some of the troops rushed towards the Nala to chase the other stealthily taking the cover of thick vegetation and undergrowth to nab the terrorists and reached 30 metres militant. Shri A. K. Negi, DC alongwith Constable Santosh Kumar crawled almost 100 mtrs from the target, the terrorist spotted them and started firing indiscriminately. down the nala upto the militant and killed him after exchange of fire on the spot. Regt. No. 8200701075 HC/GD Roop Singh and Sh. Parminder Singh, AC showing great presence of mind and courage, immediately HC/GD took cover and retaliated the fire. There was exchange of fire between them for some time. Amidst exchange Regt. No. 111101677 Regt. No. 880120921 Shri A.K. Negi, DC, thereafter immediately moved towards bushy part of the Nalas along Roop Singh of fire, HC/GD Roop Singh exhibiting tremendous presence of mind, safety, charged towards the terrorist and DC/GD CT/GD with his team where militant was well entrenched behind the rock. Another militant was killed 16th Bn which resulted in killing of the terrorist. Ashok Kumar Negi Santosh Kumar on the spot by lightening action of CT Santosth. Arms and ammunition were recovered from 16th Bn 16th Bn the slain militants. Arms and Amm recovered from the slain terrorist. Year-2004 Year-2003 On specific intelligence input, a joint operation of 16th ITBP with 26RR was launched in village Thaloran (J&K) under command of Shri S. P. Singh, 2IC on 14th July, 2003. CT/GD Karan Singh was deployed in a Based on specific information about presence of some foreign terrorists, in general area Bishaku Nala cordon party about 100 yards from Samai Nala which is one of the most likely get away routes of the militants. (J&K), a joint operation with STF and 26 RR was launched on 19th December, 2003. At about 1300 hrs, a group of 5 militants in guise of civilians was noticed moving on Samai Nala track. Insp/GD Kartar Chand was the party commander of the ITBP column participated in the Operation “Bishaku On being challenged, one of the suspects took cover behind a tree and threw hand grenade in the direction Nala”. The Operation party of ITBP reached the end of Bishaku Nala after thorough search of the area, Insp/ of cordon party. One member of cordon party belonging to 26 RR sustained splinter injuries. The terrorists GD Kartar Chand suddenly spotted two terrorists. fired a volley of fire towards CT/GD Karan Singh, who was in close vicinity of the injured constable, and tried At almost the same time, the terrorists also spotted Insp/GD Kartar Chand and started firing which was Regt. No. 700080458 to snatch his AK-47 rifle from him. retaliated. In the exchange of fire one of the terrorists was injured while trying to escape along the left side of Inspector/GD Regt. No. 880174872 the slope. The other militant continued firing. Insp/GD kartar Chand chased and killed the militant. Arms and CT/GD Karan Singh, showing high level of professionalism, bravery and commitment towards duty, chased Kartar Chand Constable/GD Amm. were recovered from the slain terrorist. the terrorists who were firing indiscriminately, managed to kill one militant. Arms and Amm recovered from 16th Bn Karan Singh the slain terrorist. 16th Bn

On 28th April, 2003, specific information was received from a reliable source about suspected hide out of terrorists at Lagor. Based on information, a Party led by Shri S. P. Singh, 2IC reached 500 meters short On dated 20th May, 2005 at 0500 hrs, a party consisting of one GO and ten others moved in Swaraj Mazda of suspected Hide Out. After 10 minutes of the observance, one terrorist came out of the hide out. Seeing truck from Changlang to attend TEWT at Kanubari followed Margherita, Tinsukia, Naherkatia, Namrup, the movement of the terrorist, Shri S. P. Singh immediately called rest of the party members and deployed Dillighat, Barhat route. CT/Dvr Ajmer Singh was the driver to the vehicle. the troops.Meanwhile one more terrorist came out of the hide out. Both the terrorists lit fire to cook food. At about 1030 hrs while party was near to Dillighat, they were trapped in an ambush laid by suspected While the party was closing in, one of the terrorists observed the movement of our troops and stated firing insurgents of ULFA outfit. Insurgents opened heavy volume of fire with aim to incapacitate and kill all the indiscriminately on the party. The fire was effectively retaliated and in the ensuing gun battle the two terrorists members of the party sitting in the vehicle. Shri Sharad Pratap were killed. In the meantime, one more terrorist appeared on the scene and started firing indiscriminately Regt. No. 047020789 Singh on the party led by Shri S. P. Singh. The terrorist kept on firing indiscriminately, but Shri S.P. Singh dashed A bullet hit on the right hand of driver. Despite of the bullet injury and without caring of his personal CT/DVR Second-In-Command towards the terrorist amidst heavy exchange of fire, exhibiting raw courage and conspicuous bravery without safety CT/Dvr Ajmer Singh drove the vehicle away from the zone of ambush thereby saving lives of many Ajmer Singh 16th Bn slightest care of risk of life and killed the militant. Huge quantity of Arms and Amm recovered from the slain personnel. 3rd Bn terrorists. Year-2012 Year-2015 On 07.06.2013 a reliable information was received at THQ Manpur that, around 30-40 Naxalites are taking A joint area domination patrol and search operation by 25th Bn ITBP Police and Chattisgarh Police was shelter in the forest of Bukmarksa village 16 Km from Thq Manpur. conducted on 28.01.11 in the jungle of general area Khunera district Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh. Accordingly on the intervenening night of 7th & 8th June 2013 Sh. Shivraj Singh AC led his team consisting The domination patrol in an extended formation was moving and searching the thick jungles of Khunera. a party of 99 members for operation in general area of Bukmarka Village. Sh Shivraj directed ITBP PL -1&2 to CT/GD Bhoop Singh was moving as part of scout of the party. At around 1205 hours, a sudden burst of fire cordon the village and striking party of 29th ITBP started searching the village. Insp/GD Surender Prasad was came from the front side of left party followed by more fire from different directions as the naxals had laid an Regt No 9000202707 given responsibility to cordon the village fm right flank.Suddenly a gun fire was heard towards kothar/ behak ambush. While the SFs wee in the process of encircling the naxalite cadres, in the meantime CT/GD Bhoop Regt. No. 997040185 AC/GD immediately toops opened fire on that particular Behak. Suddenly two female and three male Maoist naxals wearing Singh of 35th Bn, ITBP the scout of the party observed naxals moving from the other side of the jungle. He CT/GD Shivraj Singh green uniform came out from the behak and started running towards Bukmarka village opposite direction of striking immediately alerted the others and advanced towards naxalites firing without caring for his life. The aggressive th Bhoop Singh 44 Bn party. In between one more Maoist naxal came out of that behak and started running towards village Bukmarka. counter, the grit and determination of the troops to break the ambush made the naxalites flee. In the course of (Posthumous) Immediately heavy volume of fire was opened upon the running naxal by Shivraj and Ct/GD Yudhvinder Singh th encounter, a bullet of naxalites hit CT/GD Bhoop Singh on the left side of his face just below his right ear. The 35 Bn shot down. As the operation was on Insp Surendeer Prasad who was covering the village from one side informed ambush site was immediately cordoned off and searched by the party. This led to recovery of Arms and Amm. Shivraj that the villagers have started coming out of their houses with sound of beating drums and nagadas According to SIB reports, during encounter, Naxal have suffered casualties and confirmed death of one female which was managed by Insp surrender Prasad very efficiently. In between AC/GD decided to fire UGRLon naxalite.In this encounter (Late) Shri Bhoop Singh, Constable displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and running naxals. Immediately after fire of UGRL villagers stopped playing the drums and nagadas. On searching devotion to duty of a high order. Chhattisgarh Police personnel confirmed that the Maoist who was shot dead is a dreaded naxal Udham Singh of Regt No 837010112 Mohla LOS Commander and Secretary of Manpur Area Committee on whose head state Govt. had announced 2.10 Insp/GD lacs reward. Surender Prasad On 12th December 2012, based on Sitagaon, 44th Bn of ITBP launched an area Domination Patrol. CT/GD 44th Bn AC Shivraj Singh directed his party to search the village along with strike party. CT/GD Yudhvinder Singh was Ramesh Chandra was one of the member of the patrol which was tasked to conduct De-mining and combing first person to enter the Kothar saw two person a male and a female inside the behak. He notced 01 Insas rifle as operations. while negotiating the steep incline moving towards the nullah, maintaining the tactical posture, well. Both the person were immediately apprehended and taken to custody. On interrogation, it was revealed that suddenly there was sound of gunshot emanating from the dead ground ahead where a group of naxals have appredended Maoist are owner of that Kothar who confirmed that there were eight Maoist including femate under laid ambush and were in wait for ITBP troops to come within their killing zone. CT/GD Ramesh Chandra command of Udham Singh present in this Behak. In this ops huge amount of Arms and Amm. recovered from opened retaliatory fire from his AK-47 Rifle and pinned down the hidden Naxals as a result they were unable action site. to counter the fire. This provided ample opportunity for rest of the troops to react the situation and open fire on During the entire operation AC/GD Shivraj Singh, Insp/GD surrender Prasad and Ct/GD Ydhvinder Singh have the Naxalites. CT/GD Ramesh Chandra without fearing for his safety, completely demolished the nefarious Regt No 030180211 Regt. No. 090441007 effectively taken all security precautions and conducted in a very professional manner in consonance with highest designs of the naxalites and they fled for their lives taking advantage of terrain covered by imperviously thick CT/GD CT/GD tradition of ITBP. vegetation and broken ground along the nullah. CT/GD Ramesh Chandra was instrumental in neutralizing a Yudhvinder Singh Ramesh Chandra naxalite ambush upholding the traditions of ITBP “ Shaurya , Dridta & Karamnishtha” in their true spirit. nd In this encounter Shri Shivraj Singh, AC/GD, Insp Surender Prasad and Ct Yudhvinder Singh displayed th 2 Bn 44 Bn conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion to duty of a high order.

Year-2015 Year-2015 Mother Nature chose the Kedar valley of Garhwal region in Uttrakhand as its unfortunate victim when massive cloudburst hit the area on the intervening night of 16th and 17th June 2013, that left a trail of death and destruction in its wake. NDRF team led by Late Sh. Nitya Nand Gupta, The unprecedented heavy downpour which continued from 15th to 2IC and 8 others (ITBP personnel on deputation with NDRF) reached to assist the civil administration to search and evacuate the trapped pilgrims 17th of June-2013 had caused havoc in Kedarnath valley taking toll of immediately. On 25th June, 2013 while on return journey from Kedarnath, after completion of mission, the helicopter crashed into the mountain thousands of precious human lives. On a requisition received from civil and all 9 laid down their lives in the line of duty and to serve the humanity, so as to ameliorate the suffering of survivors and their families without administration Sh G.S. Chauhan, Commandant 8th BN immediately sent a fully equipped rescue team Guptkashi by Helicopter. Regt No 788030116 Regt No 0770292187 Regt No 070290522 The rescue team saved the lives of thousands of people at Guptkashi and SI/GD CT/GD CT/GD Kedarnath area during their six days of rescue operation under extremely Jayendra Prasad Nand Ram Bibhuti Roy harsh climate, persistent rain, unhygienic working conditions, risky and (Posthumous) (Posthummous) (Posthumous) inhospitable terrain and work day and night without rest. 8th Bn 8th Bn 8th Bn Regt No. 070270913 Taking note of the excellent and extensive work done by the team of Regt No. 880121945 Regt No. 837030274 Regt No. 887011859 Regt No. 080060216 Late SI/GD Jayendra Bhatt, they were called back to BHQ for rest and Second-In-Command Inspector (GD) Sh. Satish Kumar Constable (GD) Constable (GD) Sh. Bassavaraj recuperation. Sh. Nitya Nand Gupta Sh. Bhim Singh Sub-Inspector(RO) Sh. K. Vinaygan (Posthummous) (Posthummous) (Posthummous) Yaragatti The ITBP team led by SI/GD Jayendra Prasad along with NDRF teams (Posthummous) (Posthummous) of rescuers boarded the helicopter from Kedarnath area for return journey on 25th June, 2013 which crashed unfortunately enroute in which 20 personnel including 06 personnel of 8th Bn ITBP (No- 788030116 late SI/ GD Jayendra Prasad, 0770292187 CT/GD Nand Ram and No-070290522 CT/GD Bibhuti Roy, No 100040263 CT/GD Ajay Lal, 070292641, CT/ Regt No 070292641 Regt No 100800078 Regt No 100040263 GD Sarvesh Kumar and No- 100800078 CT/GD Jomon P.G.) lost their CT/GD CT/GD CT/GD lives. Sarvesh Kumar Jomon P.G Ajay Lal (Posthumous) (Posthummous) (Posthummous) 8th Bn 8th Bn 8th Bn Regt No. 070271013 Regt No. 070292499 Regt No. 040210094 Regt No. 040080067 Constable (GD) Constable (GD) Constable (GD) Constable (GD) Sh. Santosh Sh. Sanjiva Kumar Sh. Pawar Shashi Sh. Ahir Rao Ganesh Kumar Paswan (Posthummous) Kant Ramesh (Posthummous) (Posthummous) (Posthummous) Year-2016 Year-2016 Sh Deepak Singh, AC/GD commanding Chumar post and HC/Tele Kanwar Singh were deployed at Chumar On 3rd January, 2016, at around 2028 hours a group of armed Fidayeens attacked the CGI, Mazar E Sharif with Rocket Propelled Grenades Post. This is one of the toughest and highly sensitive post of Ladakh region and situated at 15, 500 feet above. On (RPGs) followed by heavy brust fire from automatic weapons.The group of Fidayeens tried to breach the boundary wall and main gate by resorting dated 10.09.2014 Chumar OP observed movement of PLA in the area. Subsequently, Sh Deepak Singh , AC and to heavy Gun fire and Grenade lobbing, but CT/GD Sandip Ghosh, CT/GD Harinandan Gurunani and CT/BB Satish Kumar under direction of Insp/ HC/Tele kanwar Singh with ITBP troops moved forward toward the area and observed that dozer was cutting road GD Subhash Chandra fought bravely which resulted successful thwarting of the attack. at the and they had made road 35 to 40 metres inside Indian Territory. Sh. Deepak Singh, AC went forward with his Insp/GD Subhash Chandra with total total disregard to his own safety and braving intense hostile gun and rocket fire; resulted in elimination and troops and stopped the road construction work immediately. At this time, HC/Tele Kanwar Singh was deployed as injury to terrorists and compelled other Fidayeens to run for shelter in adjacent buildings. By that time, Afghan Forces arrived and engaged attacking radio operator to pass real time information to higher headquarters. AC/GD terrorist by surrounding the building. Later on, in a joint Combing operation by Afghan Quick Reaction Forces and support fire by ITBP, remaining Deepak Singh On stopping, PLA troops became very aggressive and shouting and pushing back Indian troops but but Deepak Fidayeens were also eliminated. 5th Bn Singh was not subdued by all this rhetoric. Deepak Singh spread his troops in small-small parties to stop the On 2nd March, 2016, at around 1156 hours, a group of armed Fidayeens attacked the CGI, Jalalabad by firstly detonating explosive laden car construction. Without caring for their life, AC Deepak Singh and HC/Tele Kanwar Singh Stood in front of dozer (VVIED) and then resoting on heavy gun fire and lobbing of grenades. Insp/GD Dinesh Sharma, HC/GD Mohardwaj, CT/GD Ravindra Singh along with troops at the area in extreme cold ,hostile weather and high attitude terrain with the firm intention of and CT/GD Bhoopendra Singh resorted to exemplary courage and retaliated with exemplary fire discipline and valour by not retaliating with in- stopping them and did not allow them to advance a single inch inside Indian territory. This action speaks highly of discriminatory fire otherwise such action would have definitely invited collateral loss to the friendly force/ANP. Himveers demonstrated exemplary their devotion and highest sense of dedication towards motherland. Deepak Singh AC/GD and HC/Tele Kanwar courage and held the morcha till the end of enraged combat/firing between attacking Fidayeensa andANSF (QRF) Singh ITBP displayed immense foresight, maturity, calmness, high level enthusiasm and leadership in abnormal situations. The quick decision making, precise sharp shooting skills and the astute courage and combat resoluteness in highly risky anti terror combat operation demonstrated by the above personnel speaks about the highest level of bravery and true professionalism of ITBP personnel. In this action S/Sh Deepak Singh, AC and Kanwar Singh, HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and HC/GD devotion to duty of a high order. Kanwar Singh 5th Bn

Insp/GD HC/GD CT/GD CT/GD Dinesh Sharma Mohardhwaj Ravindra Singh Sandeep Ghosh

CT/GD CT/BB CT/GD Harinandan Gurunani Satish Kumar Bhoopendra Singh 8 880020463 CT/GD Hira Prasad 14th Bn 10/9/1991 Laid down his life fighting terrorists in Punjab. Vill- Sakopar Ganthirya Tolal Martyrs of the Force Distt-Deoriya (UP) S.No Regt No Rank Name Unit Date Of Brief Description Of Address Incident Incident Place Of Incident 1 630031027 CT/SK Raghubir Singh 3rd Bn 26/10/89 Laid down his life on active duty in Sh Bansi Ram (Father), 9 870145433 CT/WM Ramesh Chandra 14th Bn 10/9/1991 Laid down his life fighting terrorists in Punjab. Vill- Bhalarpur, po- Malik pur, Srinagar ( J&K) VPO- Maudora, Distt- Sonepat (HR) Distt- Farukhabad (UP)

2 880160799 CT/GD Anil Kumar 14th Bn 6/7/1990 Laid down his life in an encounter with Vill - Vembayam PO/Teh Vattappara militants in Punjab. Trivanthapuram, Kerala. 10 758010332 HC/GD Ashok Kumar 24th Bn 6/11/1991 Laid down his life fighting militants while VPO- Nowgaon deployed in SBI Srinagar. SBI, Srinagar (J&K) Distt- Chhattarpur (MP)

3 830020622 LNK/GD Rajender Mohan 11th Bn 9/5/1991 Laid down his life in an encounter with Vill-Malana, PO-Patara, PS & terrorist at Jubli road, Ludhiana (Punjab) Teh-Dharashu, Distt-Uttarkashi (UKD) 11 880180113 CT/GD Sindhe Bhasker 24th Bn 16/12/1991 Laid down his life fighting militant attack on Vill- Sanari PO Sonambe ITBP barrack at BHQ 24th Bn, Verinag, J&K Teh Sinnar Distt Nasik (MH)

4 870113905 CT/GD Subhash Singh 11th Bn 9/5/1991 Laid down his life in an encounter with VPO- Barawa, Distt- Dehradun (UKD) terrorist at Jubli road, Ludhiana.(Punjab) 12 900230612 CT/GD Harish Singh 24th Bn 16/7/1992 Laid down his life fighting militant attack Vill Musgaon, PO Naini while on guard duty at the resident of D.D.(IB) Teh Didihat, Distt-Pithoragarh (UKD) Srinagar. ( J&K)

5 870112053 CT/GD Omkar Singh 11th Bn 9/5/1991 Laid down his life in an encounter with Vill- Jamlapur P/O- Kurawali terrorist at Jubli road, Ludhiana(Punjab) Distt- Mainpuri (UP) 13 700050113 CT/GD Mangseru Lal 24th Bn 11/3/1994 Laid down his life fighting militants after an Vill- Siran, Teh Tihri IED blast on ITBP bus coming from Srinagar Distt Tihri (UKD) to Jammu near Jawahar Tunnel

6 680020256 LNK/GD Banshi Singh 24th Bn 20/9/1991 Laid down his life fighting an ambush on ITBP Vill- Birgana P/O- Jeway Veh by militants. Near Khannabal ( J&K) Teh Lansdowne 14 880176554 CT/GD Suresh Kumar 6 Spt 18/12/1994 Laid down his life fighting an encounter with Village-Gander, PO-Gander Marera distt- Pauri Garhwal (UKD) Coy militants in Helan,Anantnag (J&K) Teh-Jaisinghpur (19 Bn) Distt-Kangra (HP)-15057

7 830020275 LNK Prakash Chander 14th Bn 10/9/1991 Laid down his life fighting terrorists in Punjab. Vill- Ravigram (Nokhura) PO- Joshimath 15 880070657 CT/GD Harwinder Singh 24th Bn 30/6/1995 Laid down his life fighting militants near BHQ VPO Binjo, Teh Gadh Chhankar Distt- Chamoli (UKD) 24th Bn, Verinag, J & K Distt Hoshiarpur (PB) 16 780030191 LNK/GD Virender Singh 22nd Bn 16/7/1995 Laid down his life in an encounter with VPO- Boodhpur Teh – Rewari 25 870141614 CT/GD Kishan Ram 19th Bn 6/7/1996 Laid down his life in an encounter with VPO-Asgoli, Distt- Almora (UKD) militants at PNB Nakodar, Jalandhar ( PB) Distt- Mahendragarh (Hry) militants in Sarmi Bahak (Peer Panjal Region (J&K)

17 880050282 CT/GD Ashok Kumar 22nd Bn 16/7/1995 Laid down his life in an encounter with VPO- Pharidpur P/S- Aandhar 26 768030023 Insp/GD Raj Kumar 19th Bn 4/5/1997 Laid down his life during a search Ops to Vill. Wangam, Anantnag (J&K) militants at PNB Nakodar, Jalandhar ( PB) Distt- Siwan (Bihar) nab the militants in J&K PO- Badesara Teh- Bhiwani Distt- Bhiwani (Haryana)

18 890203576 Ct/GD Mangal Singh 22nd Bn 16/7/1995 Laid down his life in an encounter with 27 940200013 CT/GD Ramu Lal 23rd Bn 26/5/1997 Laid down his life fighting militant attack VPO- Bhadwa Teh – Phulera militants at PNB Nakodar, Jalandhar ( PB) in J&K Distt- Jaipur (Rajasthan)

19 900220599 CT/Gd Karam Chand 22nd Bn 16/7/1995 Laid down his life in an encounter with VPO- Chandran –Indora Distt- Kangra (HP) 28 870132152 CT/GD Rameshwar Dass 1st Bn 28/2/1998 Laid down his life in an IED blast by VPO- Sunhani Teh – Ghamarwin militants at PNB Nakodar, Jalandhar ( PB) Naxals, during re- election duty in Distt- Bilaspur (HP) Distt.Palmau ( Bihar)

20 900070375 CT/Gd Raj Kumar 22nd Bn 16/7/1995 Laid down his life in an encounter with Vill, PO & PS- Kangu Ka Ghera, 29 900222227 CT/GD Laxmi Dutt 1st Bn 28/2/1998 Laid down his life in an IED blast by VPO- Waldtii Teh – Munsiyari militants at PNB Nakodar, Jalandhar ( PB) Teh-Sarkaghat, Distt- Mandi (HP) Naxals, during re- election duty in Distt- Pithoragarh (UKD) Distt.Palmau ( Bihar)

th 21 900070375 HC/GD Satbir Singh 22nd Bn 16/7/1995 Laid down his life in an encounter with VPO- Khatiwas PS/Teh- Jhajjar 30 750020046 AC/GD Ashok Kumar Rana 19 Bn 2/11/1998 Laid down his life fighting militants VPO- Badla Teh – Dasuya militants at PNB Nakodar, Jalandhar ( PB) Distt- Rohtak (Haryana) while leading a the party in Vill. Chirwar, Distt- Hoshiyarur (Punjab) Anantnag

22 880174818 CT/GD Mohmd Ashraf 24th Bn 25/5/1996 Laid down his life fighting militants after being Vill- Renan Pezipure P/o- Dangiwaha 31 907021757 CT/DVR Ram Singh TPT (23 24/02/1999 Laid down his life fighting militants while Sh Chater Singh, Vill-Kearie, abducted near BHQ 24th Bn, Verinag (J&K) Distt- Kupwara (J&K) BN) on cash guard in J & K PO-Horali, Teh & Distt Almora (UKD)

23 880174569 CT/GD Javed Ali 24th Bn 25/5/1996 Laid down his life fighting militants after being VPO- Haima Payer Pora 32 880185286 CT/GD Kailash Chand 4th Bn 30/5/1999 Laid down his life in IED blast by Militants Gangola mohalla, PO-Almora abducted near BHQ 24th Bn, Verinag (J&K) Distt- Kupwara (J&K) on ITBP Bus coming from Srinagar to Diatt-Almora (UKD) Jammu near Nawgaon, Banihal(J&K)

24 940190192 SI/GD Pramod Sajwan 19th Bn 6/7/1996 Laid down his life in an encounter with 143- South, Vansthali Temple Marg, 33 111103876 DC Sh Joy Lal 4th Bn 30/5/1999 Laid down his life in IED blast by Militants GA Sociaty-35 (Rashtriya Group militants in Sarmi Bahak (Peer Panjal Region Balapur Distt- Dehradun (UKD) on ITBP Bus coming from Srinagar to Housing Sec) Flat No 46 (J&K) Jammu near Nawgaon, Banihal(J&K) Sector-20 Panchkula (Hry) 34 780030191 HC/GD Khajan Singh 4th Bn 30/5/1999 Laid down his life in IED blast by Militants Vill-Dongra Jat, PO-Ateli, Teh 43 980250168 CT/BB Deep Kumar 8th Bn 16/9/2000 Laid down his life fighting militants attack vill- Hira Nagar Ward No. 03 on ITBP Bus coming from Srinagar to Distt-Mohindergarh (Hry) on ROP near Vill. Gadol, Anantnag (J&K) Teh/PO- Hira Nagar Distt- Kathua (J&K) Jammu near Nawgaon, Banihal(J&K)

35 870070201 HC/GD Shamsher Singh 4th Bn 30/5/1999 Laid down his life in IED blast by Militants Vill-Tharial, PO-Modhipur, 44 780060491 AC/GD Surender Pal Singh 10th Bn 10/11/2000 Laid down his life in an encounter with Vill- Manyana (Kanhwal) on ITBP Bus coming from Srinagar to Teh Pathankot, Distt-Gurdaspur (Pb) militants. In this operation 02 militants P/O- Manyana Distt- Mandi (HP) Jammu near Nawgaon, Banihal(J&K) were also killed in Bunagund, Verinag (J&K) 36 950110083 CT/GD Sai Dass 1st Bn 6/7/1999 Laid down his life fighting militant attack Ward no.5 45 670071543 HC/GD Lalit Singh 10th Bn 10/11/2000 Laid down his life in a encounter with Vill- Garbyang, P/O- Dharchula at Bhatiyas post. H.No. 53, VPO- RS Pura militants. In this operation 02 militants were Distt- Pithragarh (UKD) Distt- Jammu (J&K) also killed in Bunagund, Verinag (J&K)

37 867030226 CT/GD Badri Ram 15 SPT 22/8/1999 Laid down his life in an encounter with VPO- Gurehad Teh Bharmaur 46 95014106 CT/TLR Rati Ram 4th Bn 19/2/2001 Laid down his life in a grenade Sh Sultan Singh, Coy 1st militants, while attached with 1st Bn, Distt- Chamba (HP) attack by militants at Tac HQ of 4th Vill-Mukandpura, PO-Thathwari Bn Doda Tinali, Doda (J&K) Bn., Basina Camp Srinagar (J&K) Distt- JhunJhunu (Raj)

38 900060272 CT/GD Dilbag Singh 9th Bn 18/9/1999 Laid down his life fighting militant attack Vill- Ballabey Darya 47 870124257 CT/GD Sita Ram 11th Bn 19/2/2001 Laid down his life in a militant attack ROP VPO- Samoh Tele off Gahrawin Kiratpur at Vill Ajas, Baramula while deployed in P/O- Jagde Khurd duty near Changu,Pulwama (J&K) P/S- Bilaspur Ghumapwin ,Bilaspur (MP) election duty in Distt Baramula (J&K) Teh –Ajnala, Distt Amritsar (Pb)

39 750020483 HC/Msn Ranvir Arya 9th Bn 18/9/1999 Laid down his life fighting militant attack VPO- Tangroli Patt- Patwal Suyn, 48 688020132 SI/GD Surender Singh 18 SPT 24/4/2001 Laid down his life in an IED blast targeting VPO- Sumerpur at Vill Ajas, Baramula while deployed in Teh Pauri, Distt-Pauri Garhwal (UKD) Coy 8th ITBP Veh, planted by militants in J&K Distt- Pauri Garhwal (UKD) election duty in Distt Baramula (J&K) Bn Dandipura, Anantnag Bidihar Vailu Road.

40 958010156 HC/ Lakhbir Singh 19th Bn 21/9/1999 Laid down his life in a militant attack in Sh Swaran Dass, House No. 94, 49 887020902 CT/DVR Kamrudin 8th Bn 24/4/2001 Laid down his life in an IED blast targeting H.No.86, Dailypir, Distt- Bareilly (UP) Plmbr Vill. Gokal, Anantnag (J&K) St No.-4, Ladowali road, ITBP Veh, planted by militants in J&K Preet Nagar, Jallandhar (Pb) Dandipura, Anantnag Bidihar Vailu Road.

41 970240025 CT/GD Abdul Rashid 24th Bn 2/2/2000 Laid down his life in a counter insurgency VPO- Ashmuji Teh- Kalgarm 50 957021298 CT/DVR Surjeet Singh 7th Bn 25/11/2001 Laid down his life fighting militants in Vill- Khode Bet P/O- Dharamkot Randhawa Ops against militants in Vill. Kogand & Distt- Ananthang (J&K) J&K. Teh – Derababa Nanak Chhotipura (J&K) Distt- Gurdaspur (Punjab)

42 111106635 AC/GD Pawan Chaudhary 20th Bn 4/7/2000 Laid down his life in a Helicopter crash VPO- Harsar, Teh+PS- Jawali 51 870050538 HC/GD Asha Ram 13th Bn 25/2/2002 Laid down his life in an encounter with Late sh. Bhura Ram, Father while visit to forward post. Distt- Kangra (HP) militants at ITBP Camp, Awantipura Poole Gaon, PO & Teh- Barkot Distt- Uttarkashi (UKD) 52 957021449 CT/DVR Girija Ram 4th Bn 13/5/2002 Laid down his life in a Militant attack at Vill-Vijaypur, PO-Samoh, 61 880175307 CT/GD Devender Kumar 14th Bn 2/1/2004 Laid down his life in grenade blast in Kakapur, Pulwama(J&K) Vill- Kandi P/o- Saroa Pattan, Distt Baramaula ( J&K) Teh –Ghumarwi, Distt-Bilaspur (HP) Via Pandoh Teh Cheyot, Distt-Mandi (HP)

53 950170246 CT/GD Surender Singh 4th Bn 13/5/2002 Laid down his life in a Militant attack at Vill-Kandhot, PO-Dodi Nala, 62 870124685 HC/GD Madan Lal 25th Bn 27/4/2004 Laid down his life in an IED blast by Militants during ROP Vill & PO- Yol Jharer, Pattan, Distt Baramaula ( J&K) Distt-Doda (J&K) duty in Meergund (J&K) Via- Rait, Tehsil- Shahpur, Distt-Kangra (HP)

54 697010452 Insp/RT Nathu Ram 6th Bn 16/5/2002 Laid down his life in militant attck at N/A 63 920030092 CT/GD Balvinder Singh 10th Bn 29/6/2004 Laid down his life in a grenade attack by militants at ITBP Village-Phaddi Kalan, Bijbehra Market, Anantnag (J&K) Morcha in Anantnag (J&K) P/O- Wander Jatana, Bijbehra, Anantnag. Teh-Kotkapur Distt- Faridkot (Punjab)

55 947041065 CT/GD Balbir Singh 10th Bn 26/9/2002 Laid down his life in counter insurgency Vill- Bahrewala, Po- Poanta sahib 64 040030728 CT/GD Pradeep Kumar 3rd Bn 25/5/2005 Laid down his life in ambush laid by insurgents (ULFA) in Vill – Paintua Ops against militants in J&K. Distt- Sirmour (HP)173088 Sibsagar (Assam) P/O- Baghairpur Teh – Bidhuna Distt- Auraiya Etawah (UP)

56 947040116 CT/GD Jay Ram 13th Bn 21/12/2002 Laid down his life fighting a militant attack VPO-Bayal Narnaul, 65 940091122 CT/GD Jitender Kumar 3rd Bn 28/5/2005 Laid down his life in ambush laid by insurgents (ULFA) in Vill- Sakoti at Srinagar Market (J&K) Distt-Manendergarh (HR) Sibsagar (Assam) P/O- Gurukul Narsan, Teh – Rurkee, Distt- Haridwar (UKD)

57 768030282 SI/GD Shrichand 9th Bn 17/2/2003 Laid down his life in an IED blast during Village (J&K) Vill- Manka 66 897040148 CT/GD Desha Singh 12th Bn 3/01/2008 Laid down his life in an IED blast by Taliban at Border Road Vill- Midda operation against terrorists in Doonipura Teh _ Mundawar Distt- Alwar (Raj) Organization, Zaranj project (Afghanistan). P/O- Amrikhas (J&K) Teh- Firozepur Distt- Firozepur (PB) 58 20250626 CT/GD Rajnikant Acharya 16th Bn 3/9/2003 Laid down his life in counter insurgency VPO- Eranch P/S- Niali 67 950120025 Insp/GD Manoj Kumar Singh 10th Bn 3/1/2008 Laid down his life in an IED blast by Taliban at Border Road Vill- Fathehpur, Ops in Doda (J&K) Distt- Cuttuck,(Odisha) Organization, Zaranj project (Afghanistan). P/O- Raghopur Tehsil – Hazipur Distt- Vaishali (Bihar) 59 900203633 CT/GD Mohd Muneer 16th Bn 3/9/2003 Laid down his life in counter insurgency VPO- Dhar Galoon, 68 880185704 CT/GD Dev Kumar 8th Bn 5/6/2008 Laid down his life in suicidal bomb blast by suspected VPO- Mohamad purahi, Ops in Doda (J&K) Teh- Mendhar, Distt- Poonch (J&K) Talibani suicide bomber (Veh born IED) at Gurguri, Teh- Nuh, Distt- Mewat (HRY) Afghanistan in security duty of BRO project, Zaranj near Gurguri ( Afghanistan) 60 10211076 CT/GD Pappu Prasad 10th Bn 17/11/2003 Laid down his life in a grenade attack by House NO.158 69 90140615 CT/GD Roop Singh 12th Bn 7/7/2008 Laid down his life in suicidal bomber's attack by Taliban VPO- Dhaban Militants on ITBP Vehicle at Super Bazar P/O- Gunjardih, while defending EOI Kabul( Afghanistan) Teh- Sadar Distt- Mandi (HP) Anantnag Super Bazar Anantnag (J&K) Distt- Bokaro (Jharkhand) 70 900150404 CT/GD Ajay Singh Pathania 9th Bn 7/7/2008 Laid down his life in suicidal bomber's attack by Taliban Vill- Kanwan while defending EOI Kabul( Afghanistan) P/O- Parmanand 79 70292641 CT/GD Sarvesh Kumar 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue P/S- Sadar Bazar operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Teh- Pathankot Uttarakhand Distt- Gurdaspur (PB) 71 928030355 CT/GD Roshan Lal 7th Bn 26/2/2010 Laid down his life in suicidal attack defending EOI, Kabul Vill- Pakher (Afghanistan) P/O- Samot P/S- Sihunta 80 100040263 CT/GD Ajay Lal 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue VPO-Thirpak Distt- Chamba (HP) operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Teh - Karnprayad Uttarakhand Distt- Chamoli (UKD)

72 870133327 HC/GD Jaipal 38th Bn 8/10/10 Laid down his life in an IED blast triggered by Naxals on Vill & PO- Kolar, Kokha Sawargaon Road (Chattishgarh) Distt- Sirmour (H.P.) 81 100080078 CT/GD Jomon P.G 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue Vill- Pallipuram operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, (Pottechirayil) Uttarakhand P/O- K.R PUram Teh - Cherthala 73 070381438 CT/GD Shiv Prasad 38th Bn 8/10/10 Laid down his life in an IED blast triggered by Naxals on Vill- Semi Gavad Distt- Alappuzha (Kerala) Kokha Sawargaon Road (Chattishgarh) P/o- Karanprayag 82 880121945 2IC Nitya Nand NDRF 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF Distt- Chamoli (UKD) Gupta operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Uttarakhand 74 097025196 CT/Dvr Dinesh 38th Bn 8/10/10 Laid down his life in an IED blast triggered by Naxals on Vill & PO- Rurkee Kokha Sawargaon Road (Chattishgarh) Distt- Rohtak(HRY) 83 837030274 Insp/GD Bhim Singh NDRF 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF -do operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Uttarakhand

75 997040185 CT/GD Bhoop Singh 35th Bn 28/1/11 Laid down his life fighting Naxals while in operation near VPO_ Pacheri Chhoti Patan, Distt Rajnandgaon ( Chhattisgarh) P/S- Singhana 84 887011859 SI/RO Satish Kumar NDRF 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF Distt- Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan) operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Uttarakhand 76 788030118 SI/GD Jayender Prasad 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue H.No. 12/13 Shastri Nagar operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Fase-II, Near Jal 85 080060216 CT/GD K. Vinagagan NDRF 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF Uttarakhand Nigam Colony operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, P/O- Seemadwar Uttarakhand Distt- Dehradun (UKD) 77 070292187 CT/GD Nand Ram 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, 86 070270913 CT/GD Bassavaraj Yaragatti NDRF 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF Uttarakhand operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Uttarakhand

78 070290522 CT/GD Bibhuti Roy 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue Vill-Charai Khola 87 070271013 CT/GD Santosh Kumar NDRF 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, PO-Bisondai Paswan operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Uttarakhand Teh-Golak Ganj, Uttarakhand Distt-Dhubri (ASSAM) 88 070292499 CT/GD Sanjiv Kumar 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Uttarakhand

89 040250094 CT/GD Pawar Shashi Kant 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF Ramesh operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Uttarakhand

90 040080067 CT/GD Ahir Rao Ganesh 8th BN 25.6.13 Laid down his life in Helicopter crash deployed in rescue NDRF operation in Kedar Nath axis Gauri Kund and Kedar Nath, Uttarakhand Sentinels of the Himalayas Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force